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Boat House Known As Water House

A Grade II Listed Building in Redgrave, Suffolk

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.3488 / 52°20'55"N

Longitude: 1.0249 / 1°1'29"E

OS Eastings: 606124

OS Northings: 276611

OS Grid: TM061766

Mapcode National: GBR TJ1.MY9

Mapcode Global: VHKCX.Q767

Plus Code: 9F4382XF+GX

Entry Name: Boat House Known As Water House

Listing Date: 16 March 1988

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1239913

English Heritage Legacy ID: 437958

ID on this website: 101239913

Location: Mid Suffolk, IP22

County: Suffolk

District: Mid Suffolk

Civil Parish: Redgrave

Traditional County: Suffolk

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Suffolk

Church of England Parish: Redgrave cum Botesdale with the Rickinghalls

Church of England Diocese: St.Edmundsbury and Ipswich

Tagged with: House Boathouse

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Description


REDGRAVE REDGRAVE PARK
TM 061766
2/84 Boat House known as Water
- House
GV II
Boat house, latterly a gamekeeper's cottage for Redgrave Park Estate.
Designed as part of landscaping of the park to be an eyecatcher from Redgrave
Hall (demolished). c.1766-70, by Capability Brown for R Holt; extended and
slightly raised early and late C19. White brick and flint with stone
dressings and later red brick. Black glazed pantiled roof. A rectangle on
plan with a lean-to added on one side. 2 storeys. Gable end facing former
Hall has an entrance with a half glazed door, gauged brick flat arched head;
above a string course and a blocked lunette all in a relieving arch. Outside
the arch this facade has banded rustication, flint rubble with rendered bands,
above a moulded pediment. Early C19 lean-to to left also has rusticated
flint. Symmetrical 3 bay right return is all white brick and faces lake,
ground floor gauged brick flat arched heads, first floor stone sills,
dentilled timber eaves. Left return on lean-to is flint with a ground floor
2-light casement, first floor 2-light glazing bar horizontal sliding sash. To
rear red and white brick with a door into lean-to, ground floor gauged brick
heads, original wallplates exposed. Roof raised in late C19 with red brick
above original roof line. (D. Stroud, Capability Brown, 1975, pp.112-13).


Listing NGR: TM0612476611

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